Shloka 74
यैर्यरुपायैलोंकस्तु न चलेदार्यवर्त्मन: । तत् सर्व राजशार्दूल नीतिशास्त्रेडभिवर्णितम्,राजसिंह! जिन-जिन उपायोंद्वारा यह जगत् सन्मार्गसे विचलित न हो, उन सबका इस नीतिशास्त्रमें प्रतिपादन किया गया है
yair yair upāyair lokas tu na caled āryavartmanaḥ | tat sarvaṁ rājasārdūla nītiśāstre ’bhivarṇitam ||
Bhishma said: “O tiger among kings, whatever means and measures keep the world from straying from the noble path—everything of that kind has been set forth in this treatise on polity and ethics.”
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Bhishma emphasizes that the purpose of nīti (ethical statecraft) is to provide practical measures that keep society aligned with the noble, righteous path; the treatise aims to prevent moral and civic deviation.
In the Shanti Parva, Bhishma instructs the king (Yudhishthira) on rajadharma and nīti; here he concludes that all relevant methods for keeping the world steady in righteous conduct have been explained within the nītiśāstra.